Yeah wiper, that's a pretty awesome story. I don't know how I would go about coaching a HS team that bad. Then again, I'm not sure I'd feel qualified to coach a decent team, so maybe I'd have to find one that bad during student teaching.

we had a couple kids that could play a little, it was just that once we got past the 3rd batter, i wanna say spots 4-9 probably had a total of maybe 10 hits ALL YEAR.

it was great. i had so much fun with those kids...i really only did it to get in good with the principal, because they had always had a (terrible) baseball team, and no teacher was going to do it this year..

turned out it worked, because i got offered a job when i graduated, but i ended up taking a job at my alma mater, the big D1 school, which was the only place i wanted to teach at the time..

you really have no idea how fun it was to coach them, actually..i was literally the only white person at every game except the ones against the suburban schools. no fans, unless i bribed my students in class with extra credit to come, and usually they were gone by the second inning (i stupidly told them they would get the extra credit once i 'saw' them...so they'd come up to me, or yell at me from the bleachers, i'd wave, and they'd leave..).

http://sports.espn.go.com/highschool...ory?id=3859935

Question. If Christ didn't want a team to lose 100-0, wouldn't He have done something about it?

The dude didn't apologize and actually thinks it was legit to crush them 100-0. That's so wrong.

So dumb.

Yea, the coach is a dick; but he was fired for not having a Christlike approach to the game. It was appparent well before the game that one team was superior than the other.

On its Web site last week, the Covenant School of Dallas, a private Christian school, posted a statement regretting the outcome of its Jan. 13 shutout win over Dallas Academy. "It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christlike and honorable approach to competition,".

Satan didn't mind running up the score on Christ in the 20th century amirite?

http://sports.espn.go.com/highschool...ory?id=3855856

don't know if i'm allowed to paste, but read the last 9 paragraphs or so from 'connecticut'. sighhhhh i hate people!

Lol, stupid rule by suspending the coach. Needless to say, he won his appeal, but that's not the point.

Stupid stuff has to ensue and the team is forced to alter its play to avoid penalizing the coach, ugh.

hahaha that's awesome

Okay, I was going to tell my story about how much a team that I was on sucked a lot. But the previous two stories make my team look like the Yankees Murderer's Row.

There is no doubt in my mind that somebody who keeps the full-court press on when his team is up 40-0 or 50-0 should not be coaching (much less keeping his starters in and continuing to shoot 3's, etc). I believe they actually kept up the press until it was 90-0 or 100-0 and also kept his starters in most of the time.

Obviously others are overreacting to the whole thing too. But this coach takes life and this game way too seriously.

I've been on bad teams before in little league, etc and also have seen some real blowouts in my time. I called a girls high school tourney hoops game on the radio that was the 1 seed against the bottom seed. 17-2 vs. 0-18 or something I believe. The final score was 93-17 IIRC. I believe it was 50-7 at halftime. But there were pretty much no hard feelings in that game on either side because the coach of the winning team was not pressing the whole way and actually did put the 2nd stringers in for much of the game. There is no doubt in my mind that the winning team could have won 100-0 if they wanted to simply be pressing the whole game.

In football the coach should just play guys at different positions. I'm sure some safety wants to play rb and some lb wants to play qb. play the dline at oline and oline at dline if they don't already go both ways. makes it more fun for the kids and less likely that they run the score up.

I actually kind of like how this rule had the coach in check a little bit. Obviously, whether he would have or not, he coached in a way that followed the spirit of the rule. In addition, the appeal was won because he followed the spirit of the rule.

I think this was a win all around for people. The rule may be weird, but I think everyone got it right, which may seem common sense....but when we're reading about 100-0 full court press....who knows.

Some of you will appreciate this article. This part made me think of some posters ITT and I must say, this is one of my favorite articles on the internet.

http://www.askmen.com/money/mafioso_100/102_mafia.html

Why Today's Youth is Garbage

where are you guys getting the full court press thing from? the coach's response clearly shows after the first half they were in a zone defense, and bench players were in the game, and they made only 1 3pt shot after the first half. this is just a case of 1 team being clearly superior to another, to tell kids to stop trying isnt the right mindset imo.

Again, none of the kids complained. The parents complained. The link is expert buffoonery.

Check out this Youtube from the losing team. They have nothing wrong with the game or the score. It was only the winning team's administration and the media that caused the outrage.

This is overblown. Older people have always complained about the younger generation. It's one of the consitencies of the millennia. As it is I happen to think we millennials are way under-rated, but I'm biased.

When I was in 8th grade our basketball team (the b squad) went to a HS in downtown Seattle to play another CYO team from South Seattle. I remember this team and game vividly. Our squad was a bunch of goofy white kids, and a few asian/randoms. The other team had one white kid, and the rest were black dudes. Some were big as **** too. Anyway, game gets going and these guys are dominating us. Score at half time was like 40-4. Same story in the second half. I think the final score was 70-10 or something. I don't even think any of us really noticed.

The next year, I was going to the same HS downtown, and so was the entire team from the other school. I remembered talking to them all, asking where they went, whatever, then I commented on the game. of course they all laughed, as did I. Half of them ended up playing varsity ball at our school.

and Jesus didn't bitch about it, he just buckled up his Birk's and worked on his game.

I wonder how these stories would go if told from the other side.

I've been on the losing end of ridiculous blowouts before. I like playing sports. Losing by a ton to a team way better than you never bothered me that much particularly if it was done with class.

We had a soccer game in high school where we lost 14-0. It was a junior varsity game and our school was smaller and playing against a school so big they had 5 different levels of soccer teams (to our two). These guys were total pricks and were doing this ridiculous dance and blowing kisses to the crowd after every goal. We didn't cry or anything. We just played dirtier and let them know they were ****-suckers because we had some amount of pride. As the captain of the team I had to make sure my best players didn't get ejected for fighting or anything because that would lead to them getting suspended for the next game.

I've been on soccer teams that were up by a zillion as well. We didn't run over the goalie after he made a save (which we've had done against us when getting blown out) and we switched up positions and removed our top scorer or put him back on defense.

So I'm not too worried about the fragile psyche of the losing players or anything like that. I just think this coach is a prick who should not be coaching. I'm guessing that a lot of the other teams that played this team could have won by a similar margin. But they chose not to and didn't go all crazy and run up the score with a ridiculous lay-up drill like this guy did.

When I was in 6th grade my club soccer team, (which was probably the best in my city, so its not like we sucked or anything) luckboxed our way to a trip to England due to some connections my coach had over there. He set up a bunch of games for us with random teams, one of which happened to be the West Ham U-13 team. We played 8v8 on a short field with smaller goals for some reason and I don't think we even had full 40 or 30 minute halves or whatever was normal back then. Anyway, final score 18-0, the other team was all business, didn't say a word to us the whole game, shook our hands after and disappeared. I still remember that there were snacks waiting for us in the locker room after. Really have no complaints about that one, it was actually pretty cool

A few years later my same team hosted a Brazilian club team that somehow got coerced into playing in an Internationally focused tournament in my hometown Eugene Oregon. These kids stayed with our families and were the nicest you could imagine, I had the two keepers at my place who were absolutely enormous and developed for 15 year olds. So we play them in the tournament and go down 24-0 (they beat everyone by 15+-0)...some people were kinda mad cause they were supposed to be our friends and stuff but seriously what can you do. Their first goal was drilled from about 18 yards and after that there was nothing outside the 6, they would just dribble and pass their way through our whole team. I've always wondered if some of those guys got a sniff at international action with Brazil...and again kinda a cool memory to have.

slaughter rule? i once lost a little league game 48-2. the game was called b/c of rain/lightning